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Contemplation conditioning guide

Target: EmoNet Contemplation strength. reward = (genu + blend + 1.25·emo)/(1+WER).

TL;DR. Best reward comes with the LoRA at 50% (0.623 vs 0.598 for the evolved prompt alone and 0.498 for BASE), so pair the evolved steering prompt with a 50% merge. The trade-off is intelligibility: emotion and blend edge up (blend 0.497, the highest of any condition) but quality dips (0.576 to 0.555) and WER climbs from 0.146 to 0.231. The main side-effect is a wistful, downcast color, LoRA50 correlates strongly with Longing (0.74), Sadness (0.73) and Pain (0.68) and pushes Emotional Numbness/Contentment up, so contemplation reads as calm and faintly melancholic. Do not push to 100/150%, WER doubles to ~0.52 and reward collapses to 0.41.

Without a LoRA

Best: evolved prompt, no LoRA → reward 0.60
GENERAL: A voice to the extreme expressing contemplation, a slow, thoughtful voice, deep in contemplation, musing and reflective, in every breath. SCRIPT: (slowly, deep in contemplative thought) "<neutral sentence>" · temp 1.1 top_p 0.95 top_k 25

With the emotion LoRA (dose)

50% ★ — reward 0.62 · emo 0.05
genu 0.14 · blend 0.50 · qual 0.55 · WER 0.23
100% — reward 0.47 · emo 0.06
genu 0.14 · blend 0.41 · qual 0.54 · WER 0.52
150% — reward 0.41 · emo 0.03
genu 0.13 · blend 0.37 · qual 0.49 · WER 0.52

Conditions

conditionrewardemotiongenublendqualityWER
neutral prompt, no LoRA0.500.010.110.450.630.27
evolved prompt, no LoRA0.600.040.130.470.580.15
evolved prompt + LoRA 50%0.620.050.140.500.550.23
evolved prompt + LoRA 100%0.470.060.140.410.540.52
evolved prompt + LoRA 150%0.410.030.130.370.490.52

Side effects & correlations (LoRA @ 100%)

↑ pushed up: Emotional Numbness (+0.58), Contentment (+0.32), Fatigue Exhaustion (+0.23)
↓ pushed down: Dramatic Style (-0.21), Arousal (-0.19), Attack (-0.18)
+ correlates: Longing (+0.79), Affection (+0.72), Helplessness (+0.66)
− anti-correlates: Formal Style (-0.49), Emphasis (-0.40), Pleasure Ecstasy (-0.36)

Conclusion

Best reward comes with the LoRA at 50% (0.623 vs 0.598 for the evolved prompt alone and 0.498 for BASE), so pair the evolved steering prompt with a 50% merge. The trade-off is intelligibility: emotion and blend edge up (blend 0.497, the highest of any condition) but quality dips (0.576 to 0.555) and WER climbs from 0.146 to 0.231. The main side-effect is a wistful, downcast color, LoRA50 correlates strongly with Longing (0.74), Sadness (0.73) and Pain (0.68) and pushes Emotional Numbness/Contentment up, so contemplation reads as calm and faintly melancholic. Do not push to 100/150%, WER doubles to ~0.52 and reward collapses to 0.41.